Chapter 0096: Fire Demon and Humans (2)
Pete waited until the two huge red monsters with snake tails and two flame dogs the size of calves walked away, and then finally came back to his senses, and looked at those red monsters in a daze, full of incredulity! These monsters, they don't even kill?
He didn't know why the two ferocious-looking monsters hadn't come to kill themselves after killing the undead. For this, he himself is very puzzled! Because, when the two monsters first spoke, they didn't use the lingua franca of humans, so Pete had no idea what they were just talking about, it was a very strange language!
However, he is always happy that he can still survive now, no one will want to die if he is alive, and of course Pete wants to continue to live!
So, after remembering that his sister Lana was still lying weakly in the cave waiting for him, he quickly broke free from the entanglement of the fallen branches and leaves, and quickly got up from the ground, ignoring the painful and bleeding wounds on his body, grabbed the hemp bag he had dropped before climbing the tree, and ran back to the dense forest along the way he came.
"Who is it? Ah, Pete? You're finally back. Where did you just go? What ..... are you? ”
As Pete walked around and around to the cave where their two siblings lived, his sister Lana was leaning weakly against the rock wall at the entrance of the cave with a wooden stick, and when she saw that it was her brother who had returned, a gentle smile finally appeared on her pale and tired face.
"Sister! How did you get up! Come on in, and voila, I've got you back! There was cheese, bread, and a chunk of smoked deer shank! ”
After Pete stepped forward and helped his sister back to sit down on the pile of dead leaves in the cave, he excitedly took out a large pile of food from the package he had brought back, and he believed that with these things, his sister would slowly get better.
"This is? Pete, you..., did you actually go outside? At the first sight of the food, Lana did not rejoice at the abundance of food, but looked at her brother in surprise.
Outside the dense forest, how dangerous it is, Lana knows in her own heart, the outside is full of minions of the undead, not to mention the younger brother with a small axe, even a strong soldier is not necessarily the opponent of those undead!
She didn't expect that her younger brother Pete would take such a big risk to go outside to find food for herself, in case, if he was accidentally caught by those undead, then he would ......, thinking of this, Lana's tears welled up at once.
"Pete, don't you know how dangerous it is out there? My sister doesn't need you to do this, my sister just hopes that you can live well and live well! Sobbing and whimpering, Lana reached out and stroked her brother Pete's scratched cheek, and finally couldn't help but cry quietly.
"Sister, you'd better eat something first."
Pete didn't dare to force a conversation, so he directly used the small axe to chop two pieces of hard bread and a piece of cheese and stuffed them into his sister's hands, as for the deer legs, he had no choice for the time being, unless they could find the tools to start the fire, and it was best to find another pot, otherwise, I am afraid that the two sisters and brothers would have to eat raw!
"Pete, promise my sister, don't venture out again, these things, if we save a little food, maybe, after a while, the army of our Lordaeron Kingdom will come back and dare to run away from those evil undead!"
Lana took only one loaf of bread, then broke off a small piece of cheese, and the rest of the stuff she was going to put back in the sack and store it carefully. In this way, the two siblings will be able to stay in this relatively safe cave for a long time, and their brother will not have to venture out to find food.
"Okay, sister, I'll listen to you!" After being silent for a while, Pete finally nodded, and promised his sister that with these things now, they really don't have to go out to find food in the near future.
However, he also had an unsolvable doubt in his heart, he didn't know why that huge basilisk-like red monster and flame dog suddenly appeared outside? And they're still cleaning up the undead? What made him even more puzzled was why they hadn't killed themselves just now.
This is what Pete is most puzzled about, look at their hideous and evil appearance, and you can see if they are not good monsters when you look at them, right? So, why did they let themselves go after killing the undead? Why is that?
For this, in the head of Pete, a tough boy who is not deeply involved in the world, he can't figure it out! How could there be such a good creature in the world of Azeroth that didn't kill people? Pete believed that if he dared to go to the river or the sea alone, those weak fishmen would not be able to cook themselves in less than half an hour!
After the two of them ate a little more in silence, Lana, the attentive sister, finally noticed her brother's abnormality, he seemed to be thinking about something, and always looked sullen.
"What's wrong, Pete? What are you thinking? ”
"That..., sister, there's something, I think it's better to tell you! Just now, when I went out to look for food, I was actually discovered by a group of undead, and I thought I was dead! Then, I climbed a tree as fast as I could, you know, I climbed the fastest tree, and no one could match me. Pete thought about it, but decided that he would not be able to sleep if he didn't express his doubts about his sister Lana.
"What! And what's going on? Pete, you, are you hurt? Hearing her brother say that she had encountered the undead, Lana couldn't even care about eating, so she hurriedly stepped forward to check her brother's body.
The fate of being scratched by the undead is very miserable, you will be slowly tortured to death by those highly poisonous plagues, and finally you will become a member of the undead! In this case, Lana's two siblings have been on the run in these days, but they have seen a lot! She couldn't imagine what she would do if her brother, Pete, was going to turn into that kind of monster.
"No, I wasn't bitten by the undead, it's just that when the tree was knocked down by the undead, I accidentally cut it a few times, this is a small injury, it's really not bitten by the undead, sister, you can rest assured!" Seeing that Sister Lana still wanted to hold on to her weak body to check herself, Pete hurriedly comforted her.
"And how did you get back? The undead..., they didn't chase you? ”
This is Lana can't help but be afraid for a while, she didn't expect that her younger brother had just encountered such a big danger, and was blocked by a group of undead on the tree, so wouldn't he almost die?
Climbing to a tree is always a dead end, and she has seen it before, and it doesn't take long for those hideous undead who walk on all fours to gnaw down a big tree that two people hug together! Even sluggish skeletons and zombies can stay under the tree forever until you starve to death or run down yourself!
"I still wonder what to do! When the tree fell, I already felt like I was finished! Dead! But who would have thought that just as the tree had fallen, and I was entangled among the branches, a group of even more powerful monsters rushed over and killed all the undead in three or two clicks! Pete began to excitedly recount what had happened to him.
"Another bunch of monsters? So..., didn't they find you? And then, you sneak back while they're not looking? Hearing that another group of monsters more powerful than the undead had come out, Lana's face began to turn pale again.
"Nope! They had already discovered me! You don't know, they have red skin, snake-like tails, they stand upright almost the height of a small house, and they have long, terrible bone spurs on their bodies, and they look tall and strong! Pete began to tell him what he was seeing.
"That's right! I also noticed that they were carrying two calves-sized dogs! It wasn't any ordinary dog, it was like it was made of magma, and it looked like a red-hot soldering iron, and it was still scorching, and it looked fierce! Still, for some reason, they didn't seem to attack me at the time....." Pete has always been strange about this.
"The big red snake-tailed monster? Big red dog like magma? So how could they not attack you? They don't sound like righteous creatures, do they? ”
Lana is just a little girl who grew up on the farm, and she doesn't know what kind of monster Pete is talking about, she is just frightened by Pete's words now! Look, it's even worse now! It's only been a short time since the undead came, and now there is a group of even more terrifying monsters, what happened to their Lordaeron Kingdom?
That's right! She had also heard that there was a troublesome orc more than ten years ago, but Lana, who is only fourteen years old now, doesn't know much about the orcs at the beginning, and only vaguely knows that those orcs who were locked up seem to have all run away a year or two ago! For this reason, the army of the Kingdom of Lordaeron at that time was still busy for a while, and let all the farms raise taxes to subsidize the military expenses for the search for orc fugitives!
"Actually, it's not that I haven't been attacked, at the beginning, there was indeed a big red basilisk that wanted to attack me, the long big knife weapon in its hand was at least higher than mine, and the knife was still shining with red runes, it must be the legendary kind of magic weapon, it was ready to be chopped down at that time, and I thought I was dead! However, for some reason, its companion suddenly intervened to stop it, and it was the same, identical-looking snake-tailed monster. ”
Thinking of this, Pete still has palpitations in his heart! At that moment, he almost thought that he was dead, that knife was almost the size of half a door panel, if it really slashed down, then it would be okay? The undead had been slashed to pieces by two blows, and he didn't think he could be more resistant than the evil ones.
"And then, they ...... Just let you go back? Lana also felt a little incredible, such a terrifying-sounding monster, they could just let their brother go like this? Could it be that they are creatures of the Holy Light?
"I'm still wondering! Anyway, they were muttering to the side for a while, and then they walked away and ignored me. They didn't speak the lingua franca, and I didn't know what they were talking about, so when I saw them go away, I quickly grabbed the sack and ran back. ”
After the two siblings were silent for a while, Pete suddenly thought of something, and then he opened his mouth and said to his sister Lana, "Sister! Why don't I go out tomorrow? We can't hide here all the time! If we run into a big spider or a bobcat, we won't be able to defeat it! ”
"No! Pete, I'm not going to let you run out alone anymore! If you're going tomorrow, I'm going to go with you! ”
Lana, who is only fourteen years old now, is also a little unsure about those new monsters. But in her mind, since they didn't attack his brother just now, it shouldn't be too bad, right?
Perhaps, tomorrow the two siblings can go out to find out the situation? If they really don't attack humans, then wouldn't the two of them be able to live in the big houses of the lumberjacks? And then you don't have to worry about those evil spirits all day long? Either way, it's time to give it a try!
"Okay! Then let's go out together tomorrow after dawn! Pete thought about it, nodded and agreed to his sister's suggestion, he was a little uneasy to leave his sister Lana and let her stay alone in the cave.
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John is not only a veteran of two orc wars, but also a second lieutenant on duty in the eastern watchtower to which Lordaeron belongs, and is part of the Eastern Defense Corps!
Since the beginning of the First Orc War, he has been serving in the army of the Kingdom of Lordaeron. Now, he's in his fifties. With a lot of combat exploits when fighting against the orcs. He successfully mixed up with the easy errand of this guard tower guard, and in this way, he worked for more than ten years, from being an uncle in his Chinese New Year's Eve years to a veteran in his fifties!
In the past ten years, his treatment and his military rank have never been promoted, as if the bigwigs of the army have forgotten that there is such a person as him who can fight well!
In fact, if you think about it, this is not too strange! After all, Old John is just a mud leg who has been mixed up from a small soldier by virtue of his military exploits! There is neither power nor power, and there is no backstage! Which aristocratic lords with eyes above the top, where would they care about the life or death of his small soldier?
Looking at the human side of the Azeroth World Alliance, which of those paladins or legendary heroes who can finally become a big man on the side is not from a prominent background? Which one doesn't have a deep origin? As for John with mud legs, he still wants to make his way out in the league? Don't dream!
If it weren't for the fact that his old John still had military exploits on him, he would have been given the position of the duty officer a long time ago! Still want to get promoted? Not to mention the doors, there are no windows! If there is no accident, he can only honestly squat in the position of this garrison officer, squatting until he is old, squatting until death!
In this regard, Old John probably has a point in his heart, so he has been in this position all the time, and when he goes to work, he behaves in a proper manner, and he doesn't mess around, and when he gets off work, he should do what he should do. He also accepted his fate, and planned to stay in this guard tower like this until the day he died of old age, anyway, his treatment was not too bad, it was better than his dead comrades!
Originally, there was almost no war here, and it was not a front-line area, and no one would think of replacing him, an old veteran, so he usually led his twenty young men to kill the wandering wild animals, or tease the little girls in the nearby villages, and took advantage of some verbal advantages, they didn't seem to have anything legitimate to do, and they were also very satisfied with this leisurely life as a soldier.
But sometimes, fate will always play a little clumsy joke on you when you accept your fate! Like all the people of Lordaeron, Old John's peaceful life was soon shattered by the sudden undead scourge!
Just a few days ago, when Old John saw a huge group of undead preparing to attack his watchtower, he didn't say a word, and before the undead were ready to close up, he directly led his twenty stick guys to burn down the watchtower and ran away! He, old John, wouldn't be so stupid as to defend himself against the attack of thousands of undead with twenty men guarding the watchtower!
When he fled, Old John was prepared to fight his way out of the encirclement, so where did he think that along the way, they surprisingly did not encounter more than ten undead, and where were those scattered ghouls or zombie skeletons that were the opponents of the twenty-man shield infantry squad brought out by him, a veteran?
So, in this way, in the next few days, they fought and killed all the way, while collecting the refugees they met, and cleaning up the scattered undead monsters. They were going to lead the team to the Chapel of Light's Wish or the Hand of Tyr, because John Sr. had received word from the refugees that it was said that there were only two areas left in the eastern part of the kingdom of Lordaeron that had not been breached by the undead.
Maybe it's the good luck that comes to an end, maybe the old John has collected too many refugees and the goal is too big! So, when they were about to lead the team around the source of Lake Blackwood and prepare to go south to the cathedral, they were targeted by a team of thousands of undead!
The undead were still cunning enough to block them back and forth, whether it was to continue east or west, it was already a dead end, plus the big river blocking the road to the south, so there were not too many options left for them.
"Sergeant Jude! Quick, go north! You take the refugees to the lumber yards of the Grand Canyon Woodlands! The rest of us try to delay you a little longer, if we can't hold on, we'll retreat, don't let the undead catch up with you!" ”
Now, John didn't have much of a way to hide for a while other than the lumberjack's passage along the mountain pass to get straight into the Grand Canyon. So, he hurriedly ordered his deputy! This is actually to blame him, there are too many refugees in the collection, there are hundreds of them, if the undead don't come to block him, who will they block?
Now John can be thankful that most of these undead in front of him are slower zombies and skeletons, and he didn't see a few of those murderous ghouls! Otherwise, they probably won't even have a chance to escape, and the running ghouls won't be much slower than the war horses!
"Okay, Boss! Then we'll run first! Don't die! ”
Jude answered loudly, quickly turned around and beckoned to the refugees, and hundreds of people began to follow him in a hurry, spreading their legs and running wildly towards the mountain pass to the north.
"Come on, damn undead dregs! Come to your Uncle John's side! I'm going to cut off all your heads! ”
While shouting loudly, John commanded the remaining nineteen brothers under his command to form a neat battle line, while slowly retreating, maintaining a distance from the undead brigade, while ready to shield against the attacks of the undead, and then, at a certain time, at the right time, cut off the head of a zombie or skeleton!
In Old John's opinion, these undead disasters are simply too far away from the orcs! The orcs are furious, majestic and powerful, and are generally a head taller than human soldiers, and can even weigh twice as much as humans! During the Second World War, they fought hard!
And now, this slow-moving, unconscious, stiff-moving zombies and skeletons in front of you, they are completely useless except for their large numbers! If it's one-on-one, he's guaranteed to play a thousand at a time! If it weren't for the fact that he was now old, both his physical strength and physical reactions had begun to fall from the level of elite warriors, that number would have at least doubled!
"Brethren! That's it, keep your distance, don't face too many undead at the same time, hold on to your shields, remember! Never resist directly, pay attention to the skill of unloading, otherwise, your left arm will most likely be broken by the undead! Then, take note of the timing and use your short swords to cut off their heads! That's it! ”
In between speaking, Old John deftly swung the long sword in his right hand, cut off the head of a skeleton, and by the way, a shield strike helped a brother next to him knock a zombie away from a sneak attack.
"Be careful! Line up, step back slowly, and never lean in front alone! Pay attention to cooperate with each other to cover! ”
In this way, the twenty Lordaeron soldiers lined up in a neat row, holding the Lordaeron emblem shield and the one-handed longsword in their right hand, slowly retreating and scattering the battle line of the undead.
When the veteran John was fighting vigorously, he suddenly found that Sergeant Jude, who was supposed to lead the refugee gate to the forest farm canyon just now, actually led the refugee gate to run back! What are they going to do? It's been a hard fight on their side, and if the undead hadn't sent ghouls or abominations, their thin one-man front would have been crushed long ago!
"Bastard! Damn Jude! Why are you back again? Want to die? If you want to die, Lao Tzu will give you a knife right away! Old John began to curse angrily, and the bastard had come back with all his great effort!
"Boss! I don't want to! Because there was a more ruthless one running out of it! I'm desperate! ”
Leading hundreds of refugees who were huddled into a ball and could not retreat, Jude's left hand with the shield began to tremble, if the one inside was an undead, he still had the courage to fight a few times, even if he died, he could pull a few to his back! However, in the face of the big guy in the canyon, he couldn't muster the courage to resist at all! No one needs to fight him, just step down, and it is estimated that he can directly squash Jude!
As he spoke to Sergeant Jude, Old John began to feel the rhythmic shaking of the ground, as if it were ...... Is it the footsteps of some giant creature? The Holy Light is above! How big does it have to be to make something that moves like this?
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The lava giant Otok is the only lava magnite in this canyon now, if it hadn't secretly bribed Shane Knox, I'm afraid that among the first batch of fire elementals that came here, it would never have been Otok's share! It's always been complacent about it!
Otuk's brain has always been very good, and it is a lava fire element like no other! The strength is also very strong, and now it is only a few thousand years old, and it has almost reached the strength of the Molten Lord.
Of course, no matter what, it is definitely not as good as the Lord of Leolis in the Land of Flames, but he Otuk is definitely much more powerful than some other Fire Elemental Lords of the same level, because of his size!
Just by virtue of its size, give those little fire demons or earth dogs of the same level a hundred guts, and they don't dare to find it Otuk to fight alone! After all, apart from hand-to-hand combat, the fire elementals don't have much to deal with opponents who are also fire elements, so is it difficult to set fire to each other? No kidding!
After coming out of the portal in the afternoon, Otunk originally planned to do Lord Shanknox a small favor, show his face in front of the leader, and add some impression points. It's a pity that the fire demons don't seem to need the help of this big guy in their work now, so it can only do this now, wandering around the Grand Canyon aimlessly and looking at the scenery.
After the fire demons were scattered into dozens of groups to explore and sweep the entire Grand Canyon, Otunk didn't even have a chance to find some death! So, it had to wander out casually along the main road.
Walking around, it soon reached the exit of the Grand Canyon, after all, its footsteps are big! So, at once, it Otunk bumped into the group of hundreds of humans who were about to run in!
At first, Otunk thought that those were undead, but when he just wanted to start fighting, he suddenly found that the other party was actually a group of living people, not the kind of brainless undead he had ever seen! Because as soon as they saw it, they were so frightened that they screamed and ran away!
In this regard, Otunk wondered very much, after seeing that they were living people, he didn't plan to continue to attack them, so what are they running now?
Unable to understand the lingua franca of Azeroth, Otuk continued to follow their group and walked out of the canyon, trying to stop them and show them Otuk's kindness, to let them know that he didn't mean to hurt them.
It's a pity that this group of humans, who don't look like they're half as tall as Otunk's knees, can run so fast! They chased them for a while, but they couldn't catch up with them!
"Oh? What do I see? A horde of the undead? Well, Otunk can attack......"
When it followed the group of humans, it unexpectedly found a large number of undead fighting with the living people, which was really good news for Otunk, who was temporarily idle and had nothing to do.
So, Otuk hurried a few steps forward, and after passing the huddled living people, and at the same time burst out of the fiery power in its body, making it a little bigger, before raising his right foot and stomping on the heads of the undead, it was about to unleash its wide range of skills, Lava Spike!
"The swarm... The mountains ....... moving... Get up......"
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This chapter is a bit rushed, and it should be almost 8,000 words